L”Isola delle Storie XVIII
Stefano Bartezzaghi

Stefano Bartezzaghi

Semiologist and Essayist

Stefano Bartezzaghi is a semiologist and essayist, and one of the most well-known Italian crossword puzzle creators. He graduated from DAMS (Drama, Art and Music Studies) with Umberto Eco, and he is a lecturer in Semiotics of Creativity at IULM University. Since 1987 he has been curating columns on games, books and language for prominent magazines such as La Stampa, La Repubblica and Vanity Fair: some of his columns include “Lessico e Nuvole”, “Lapsus”, “Fuori di Testo”, as well as the column on linguistic criticism “Come dire” on the weekly magazine “L’Espresso”. He published essays, collections of language, puzzles and literary games; he also authored L’orizzonte verticale (Einaudi 2007), the first Italian record on crossword puzzles. He curated and analysed the newest edition of Esercizi di stile by Raymond Queneau in its classic translation by Umberto Eco (Einaudi 2014). He published Parole in gioco (2017), Banalità Luoghi comuni, semiotica, social network (2019), Mettere al mondo il mondo. Tutto quanto facciamo per essere detti creativi e chi ce lo fa fare (2021) and Chi vince non sa cosa si perde. Agonismo Gioco Guerra (2024) for Bompiani.

07/07 - ore 12:00
Mezzogiorno di Fuoco

Sant'Antiocru

La sfida. Intelligenza artificiale e creatività

Lucio Pascarelli incontra Stefano Bartezzaghi e Donata Columbro

Back to guests